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USB 2.0 For Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the plug-and-play-away dept.

SilentTone writes: "PCWorld is reporting that USB 2.0 or high speed USB will be hitting Linux first half 2002. Intel is already providing space on its Pentium 4 motherboard for the USB 2.0 controller. With a transfer rate of 480Mbps (more than firewire's 400Mbps) it seems promising." Update: 09/04 23:02 PM GMT by H : So, somewhere between my preview and going live, I seem to have "lost" the link - if you find it, please post below. I'm looking - in the meantime, this is a good Linux and USB tutorial, and Blue Cat Linux is supporting USB 2.0. HA! Found it - story updated.

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  1. Re:once again.....GNU/Linux lags BSD by mr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And FreeBSD (not to mention Apple) had support for USB before GNU/Linux.

    Do not get too high on your horse about how superior Linux is, cuz well, someone will knock ya down.

    Windows: Where do you want to go today
    Linux: Where do you want to go tomarrow
    BSD: Hey! Are you guys comming or what?!?!?!

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  2. Who cares about USB? FireWire is where it's at. by Cutriss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "PCWorld is reporting that USB 2.0 or high speed USB will be hitting Linux first half 2002. Intel is already providing space on its Pentium 4 motherboard for the USB 2.0 controller. With a transfer rate of 480mbps (more than firewire's 400mbps) it seems promising."

    That's nice. Now our USB peripherals will be unsupported in Linux much more quickly than they are in Windows!

    Isn't this putting the cart before the horse? Let's get some useful peripherals out there first.

    Oh yeah. FireWire v1 runs at 400Mbps, which is nothing to sneeze at, but I'm pretty sure they're testing v2 and v3 now, which double and quadruple that rate.

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  3. Did anyone else attend WinHEC? USB 2.0 is dead... by rarose · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Listen folks... anyone who attended WinHEC in Anaheim this year couldn't have missed the writing on the wall. USB is low speed keyboard/mice/joystick/ticker-tape stuff. High bandwidth video/storage/networking is Firewire.
    And we're all grown up enough to realize that Windows (and WinHEC) drive the volumes that hardware manufacturers look at to determine what to make.

    Put a fork in USB 2.0... it's toast.

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